With Gilbert Markus.
With Anna Hill. Producer Mark Holdstock
With Allan Little and Sue MacGregor.
6.25,7.25,8.25 Sports News
7.45 Thought for the Day
With the Chief Rabbi Dr Jonathan Sacks.
Jeremy Paxman and guests debate and deliberate new agenda-setting ideas and the latest issues, with lively and topical conversation.
Producer Ariane Koek. Shortened repeat at 9.30pm
Lively and topical interviews and discussion from a woman's point of view, presented by Martha Kearney. Drama: Dear Exile by Hilary Liftin and Kate Montgomery. Part 1 Of 5. Drama repeated at 7.45pm
The elegant French spa town of Vichy has never lived down the moment in 1940 when it became home to the wartime government of Marshal Petain which collaborated with the Nazis. In this concluding programme, James Maw discovers how the town has become a symbol for a wider and still raw debate in France about its role during the Second World War. He speaks to historians, politicians, Jewish survivors, former resistance fighters and to a group for whom Petain remains a hero. Producer Rob Ketteridge
Angela Carter 's comic tale about the intertwining fortunes of two theatrical families is dramatised in four parts by Bryony Lavery.
2: Just the Way You Look Tonight
The Lucky Chances, illegitimate daughters of the great Shakespearean actor Sir Melchior Hazard, stomp and sing their way across Britain while the legitimate Hazard family performs the classics.
DirectorClaire Grove
With Winifred Robinson and John Waite.
With Nick Clarke.
Radio 4's general-knowledge quiz continues, with Oxford and West Yorkshire competing this week. With chairman Peter Snow.
Producer Paul Bajoria. Repeated Saturday llpm
Repeated from yesterday 7pm
A mixture of interviews with steelworkers from the Don Valley in south Yorkshire, intercut with a poetic narrative by Kevin Fegan , about a man floating above a steel mill, daydreaming about his life both inside and outside the works. Raw, real and elemental, this is a compelling account of life in a heavy industry that has undergone massive changes in the last 50 years. Performed by Paul Copley. Director Melanie Harris. Composer Ivan Stott
Listeners' calls on a personal finance issue are answered by Paul Lewis and guests.
Producer Penny Haslam.
LINES OPEN from 1.30pm
Family humorist, Erma Bombeck , takes the lid off life in the American home in five readings by Maureen Lipman. 1: The Facts of Life Abridged and produced by Jane Marshall (R)
When over a million American GI's came to Britain during the latter stages of the Second World War, they fathered between 10,000 and 100,000 British babies. Now the offspring of these wartime romances are finding their biological fathers with the help of an organisation called Trace. This daily series relates the stories of five of these GI babies. Read Peter Barnard's choice on page 138.
Norma was 40 when she was finally told that the man who had brought her up was not her real father.
Extended repeat from yesterday 12.30pm
From politics to popular culture, sports to science, and art to anthropology, Anne MacKenzie and guests roam the international agenda. Producer Amber Dawson
With Dan Damon and Nigel Wrench.
The antidote to panel games comes from the Lyceum Theatre in Sheffield, with Linda Smith joining regulars Tim Brooke-Taylor , Barry Cryer and Graeme Garden. With chairman Humphrey Lyttelton and Colin Sell on the piano. Producer Jon Naismith. Repeated Sunday 12 noon
BBC RADIO COLLECTION: Six different audio cassettes of I'm Sorry Haven a a Clue are available from all good retail outlets and www.bbcshop.com. Call [number removed] for product enquiries.
Lilian outstays herwelcome. Repeated tomorrow 2pm
Hollywood comic actor-turned-fiction-writer Steve Martin is in conversation with Mark Lawson.
Producer Sally Spurring
Hilary Liftin and Kate Montgomery 's true story of a year in the lives of two girls who left college together in the late nineties in the USA. Hilary Fannin's five-part dramatisation of their letters to one another illustrates their separation when one of them marries and travels to Kenya to work with the Peace Corps, while the other lives the life of a singleton in lonely New York City. 1: Just Swimming, Thank You
Director Edward Hall. Producer Marilyn Imrie. Original music by Martin Lowe , performed by Martin Lowe and Issy van Randwyck Repeated from 10.45am
Actor and writer Nigel Planer talks to a feminist, a family lawyer, a journalist, an analyst and an advertiser to find out whether, and why, people hate men. He even talks to some men, including Stan Collymore, once dubbed "the second most hated man in Britain".
Nigel Planer's View: page 17
The series that shows you how to discover the hidden history of your town through the streets and buildings of today. Newcastle. Archaeologist Julian Richards reveals why both the Romans and Normans built bridges and castles on the same site by the river Tyne, and how coal and the railways transformed medieval Newcastle into one of the world's greatest industrial cities. Producer David oiusoga(R)
Following crises such as the foot-and-mouth epidemic and BSE, British meat production is at a crossroads. What kind of farms should there be and what livestock should they carry? In three programmes Sue Broom investigates what the future may bring for the dairy industry.
Shortened repeat from 9am
With Claire Bolderson.
Compton MacKenzie 's story of George Gaymer 's lifelong friendship with the brilliant and ambitious Henry Fortescue MP, whose hopes of high political office were threatened by his outlawed homosexuality. Read in ten parts by Richard Pasco. Part 1. Abridged and produced by Jane Marshall
Repeated from Saturday 9am
of the Week: Henry VIII - King andAM Court Repeated from 9.45am
